Sgt. Charlie Helmholt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper and Phyllis gathered with family on a sandy Wisconsin River beach to celebrate the 4th, a highlight of the kid-saturated event was a meeting between the keeper and the clan’s newest member—two-month-old Blaize Betty Russell
Despite a 90-year age gap, the two of them seemed to hit it off in great style—obviously to Blaize’s credit; and the keeper vowed to this tiny, new beautiful lady that he would lay down what is left of his life to ensure that in the year 2112, she will be treated with the same honor and respect that he and Phyllis enjoyed on July 3, 2022.
Considering the current clutter of narcissistic gender ignorance around life’s starting gate for Blaize, promising to fix those things may be as foolhardy as assuring her that there is a tooth fairy.
But there is, of course: There is a tooth fairy, Blaize, and a Santa Claus and many other wonderful nonsensical accouterments of life; and they all come with unbounded love and the determination to see to it that, because of your gender, you are never treated as a second-class citizen as some would now have it.
You don’t just “matter,” Blaize: you ARE us, here on the celebratory beaches of 2022 trying to pull our collective heads out of the sand.
Welcome to our world!
